New Entry: The Order of Mazes

[tomdd]

Quick update on the development of The Order of Mazes. Have made great progress so am about 95% complete. Hopefully this 5% won't take long, although I do want to leave time for play testing after the code is done (any volunteers!). Here are the key things I've been working on:

• Added all the monsters - graphics, movement routines etc...
• Completed simple inventory system including a shop - item buy/pickup/use, chest open, keys needed, health upgrades/regen etc...
• Finalised simple spell system including lightning upgrade & shield (all animations and effects)
• Completed checkpoint system and player regeneration on death
• Tape Save/Load in case you need to power-off (yes I know you can save state in Emulators but this is for real hardware), small save of only 610bytes will restore any game
• In game message system inside resizable speech bubbles (see image attachment for an example)

Still to do:

• In game teleporter
• Proper Level transition
• End of Game stats/trophy etc...
• One monster movement routine still to finalise
• Play testing 

Finally some more screenshots from Level 1

TomDD

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[Ivanzx]

Wow, this is looking totally mindblowing, Tom!

PLease, finish it

[alxinho]

Me recuerda a la saga Druid, me encanta


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It reminds me of the Druid saga, I love it

[tomdd]

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally completed the code and am releasing The Order of Mazes.

You can download it here The Order of Mazes

The game has been designed to work on the original 48k Spectrum but will also work on later models including toast rack 128k, +2 & +3. I've also tested it on real hardware and it runs fine.

Default Keys are:
Q-Up
A-Down
O-Left
P-Right
Fire-B,N,M,Space
Alt Fire-E
Mini Map-H

You can also pick Kempston, Cursor or Sinclair (67890) Joysticks.

The basic premise of the game is to navigate your way through 4 distinct levels of dastardly Mazes in order to find the four lost Emblems of ZedX. Once you have all four the exit opens and you can escape Mazes and complete the game. There are many chests to loot along the way and monsters that will try and stop you. You can also power-up your adventurer with new spells and potions which will make the journey a lot easier!

To start with your adventurer is armed with a lightning spell and has a 10 lockpicks which he/she can use to unlock chests full of treasure. You will need to find more lockpicks in the Mazes in order to open all the chests and also some Master Keys to open the larger chests which have the best loot in them. 

Will post some better instructions later once I've written them, most of it should be self-explanatory, but let me know if you have any questions.

I'm now going to undergo a full code review which may unearth some bugs but hopefully I've managed to iron most of them out while play testing. Wanted to release this now as you may find some bugs which I've missed. Please let me know if you see anything and I will fix.

Hope you enjoy

TomD

[climacus]

Oct 25, 2015 23:05:08 GMT tomdd said:

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally completed the code and am releasing The Order of Mazes.

You can download it here The Order of Mazes

The game has been designed to work on the original 48k Spectrum but will also work on later models including toast rack 128k, +2 & +3. I've also tested it on real hardware and it runs fine.

Default Keys are:
Q-Up
A-Down
O-Left
P-Right
Fire-B,N,M,Space
Alt Fire-E
Mini Map-H

You can also pick Kempston, Cursor or Sinclair (67890) Joysticks.

The basic premise of the game is to navigate your way through 4 distinct levels of dastardly Mazes in order to find the four lost Emblems of ZedX. Once you have all four the exit opens and you can escape Mazes and complete the game. There are many chests to loot along the way and monsters that will try and stop you. You can also power-up your adventurer with new spells and potions which will make the journey a lot easier!

To start with your adventurer is armed with a lightning spell and has a 10 lockpicks which he/she can use to unlock chests full of treasure. You will need to find more lockpicks in the Mazes in order to open all the chests and also some Master Keys to open the larger chests which have the best loot in them. 

Will post some better instructions later once I've written them, most of it should be self-explanatory, but let me know if you have any questions.

I'm now going to undergo a full code review which may unearth some bugs but hopefully I've managed to iron most of them out while play testing. Wanted to release this now as you may find some bugs which I've missed. Please let me know if you see anything and I will fix.

Hope you enjoy

TomD

Ive tried it for a while and I think that its a very good game.
Congratulations!!!!

Ill play more when I arrive home.

Tahnks for the game.

[alxinho]

Uff.. Estoy trabajando y sólo lo he podido probar 5 minutos con el móvil y ya puedo ver lo flipante del juego, me encanta, deseando probarlo en casa tranquilamente.

Qué pedazo de 2015 en la escena Spectrumera joder! Qué pasada...

Cualquiera de los dos os merecéis el premio en mi opinión sin desmerecer al resto por supuesto.


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I am at work and I was only able to try it 5 mins, but still is enough to see how awesome the game is, I love it, looking forward to trying it at home.

What a 2015 for the Spectrm!

Any of you, climacus and you deserve the first prize, altough the rest is really good too

[JB]

It is a great game, congratulations !! 


Me gusta mucho lo trabajado que está, con muchísimos detalles, esta todo muy cuidado, desde el menú inicial a los detalles del juego: el minimapa (un juego grande), los checkpoints, ...

Muchas gracias !




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I like it a lot, specially how much detail into it has been put. From the main menu, the mini-map (its a big game), checkpoints...

Thanks a lot!

[tomdd]

Just to let you know a bug was found by MatGubbins on WoS which I've fixed. Please re-download using the same link or your game will eventually crash with an out of memory error. The bug was caused by a jump out of a called subroutine, which built up the return addresses on the stack till it eventually ran out of memory

TomD

[GAMER 80]

Muy entretenido, te felicito


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Very enjoyable, my congrats!

[tomdd]

New version released, same link. Some bug fixes and a couple of improvements. See WoS for more details

TomDD

[jhormiga]

O.o It's an amazing game!! I like so much!!

[tomdd]

Oct 29, 2015 13:28:42 GMT jhormiga said:

O.o It's an amazing game!! I like so much!!

Thanks :-)

[tomdd]

I've created a quick guide for the game just to show what all the options do, what the title icons mean and the value of the in-game collectables. You can download PDF version here





TomDD

[javiperez]

Oct 25, 2015 23:05:08 GMT tomdd said:

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally completed the code and am releasing The Order of Mazes.

You can download it here The Order of Mazes

Tom, what amazing piece of work this is! I only needed couple of minutes to realize this is something special and unique...hats off!

[tomdd]

Oct 30, 2015 19:11:02 GMT javiperez said:

Oct 25, 2015 23:05:08 GMT tomdd said:

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally completed the code and am releasing The Order of Mazes.

You can download it here The Order of Mazes

Tom, what amazing piece of work this is! I only needed couple of minutes to realize this is something special and unique...hats off!

Thanks :-)